A passively mode-locked fiber laser at 1.54μm with a fundamental repetition frequency reaching 2 GHz

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13155-13166

  McFerran, J J ^a   Nenadovic L ^a   Swann, W C ^a   Schlager, J B ^a   Newbury, N R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER MODE LOCKING; PUMPING (LASER); WAVELENGTH;

REPETITION FREQUENCY; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; YTTERBIUM ERBIUM FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 35148891582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013155     Document Type: Article

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